Thank You!

Building a Community of Hope

We are deeply grateful to everyone who has supported New Jewish Narrative in 2025. It was a year of profound challenges, but also one of profound opportunities to begin, as a new organization, our work towards building a better and more just future for Israelis, Palestinians, and for all of us. For building a community of hope.

Your generosity makes it possible for us to show up with clarity, courage, and compassion at a moment when so many are searching for moral grounding and hopeful paths forward. Because of you, NJN is a trusted voice for peace, justice, and a Jewish future rooted in dignity for all.

Your support fuels our work across education, advocacy, leadership development, and community-building, bringing together Jews and progressive allies who believe that loving Israel and pursuing justice are not competing values, but deeply intertwined commitments. Together, we are creating spaces for honest conversation, fighting the rising scourge of antisemitism and challenging its weaponization, and nurturing a growing, multigenerational movement ready to lead with values.

Thank you for believing in this work and in the power of a new Jewish narrative to shape a more just and peaceful future. We look forward to continuing to build, learn, and act together as a dedicated community in the year ahead.

NJN Partners

NJN Speaks at Habonim Dror North America Seminar

NJN’s Community Engagement Associate Eli Goldenberg recently spoke at Habonim Dror North America’s (HDNA) nachshinomot seminar. This educational seminar brought in a cohort of students to learn about leadership, celebrate HDNA’s 90th anniversary, and to engage in meaningful discussions about Israel and Palestine.

Peace Now Reports on Settlement Growth in the West Bank

Our partners at Peace Now report on plans to build 1,033 new housing units in the West Bank. Including those approved this week, the Higher Planning Council has approved 28,163 housing units in 2025, an all-time record. Settlement development has accelerated since the shift from quarterly to weekly approval meetings, normalizing settlement growth and diffusing public attention.

NJN Community Perspectives

NJN Board Member Michael Walzer Interviewed in Haaretz

Gid'on Lev of Haaretz interviews acclaimed war ethicist Michael Walzer on his shifting views on Israel's moral justification for waging war. Walzer, an NJN board member, has written numerous books on just and unjust wars, Zionism, and nationalism.

Speaking about Israel's military actions following October 7, Walzer says, "There is an important ethical distinction between the justification for going to war – what is called in Latin jus ad bellum – and the moral justification of how the war is conducted – jus in bello. Going to war was just; afterward, things became complicated."

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